
Fur flies over billion-dollar koala park cost claims
A billion-dollar purported price tag for a new national park has dropped jaws and raised eyebrows as loggers and environmentalists resume hostilities.
A billion-dollar purported price tag for a new national park has dropped jaws and raised eyebrows as loggers and environmentalists resume hostilities.
An orphaned baby southern cassowary has been successfully rehabilitated and released into the wild in north Queensland.
Scientists are calling on the public to help save a shark-like marine species of ray by reporting sightings.
The world's monitored wildlife populations are down 73 per cent, with Australian species and the reef in the crosshairs, a major report warns.
Australia is looking at vaccinations for bird flu as environment ministers are called to a special meeting to discuss the threat to wildlife.
Tensions are ramping up between authorities and property owners who are resisting the fire ant eradication program with a lock-the-gates style campaign.
Pressure is mounting on the federal government to pour more money into bird flu preparations, amid warnings Australia's worst ecological disaster is looming.
A long-awaited extension on dingo control measures has been hailed as a win for farmers, but nobody seems happy with the result.
An end to native forest logging in NSW is among five options being put to stakeholders, with conservationists saying the move is a big deal for the environment.
Australia's supermarket duopoly is facing a double-barrelled shareholder challenge over fish farming threats to an ancient, imperilled species.
A forested haven for species in danger of extinction will be turned into a housing estate after escaping the Black Summer bushfires.
Coles shareholders have been told the supermarket giant won't support their efforts to protect an ancient, imperilled species from the effects of fish farming.
NSW cleared an area more than 160 times the size of Sydney's CBD in a single year, new government figures show.
Federal independents are mounting a renewed push to get the environment minister to deal with state-based logging threats to endangered species.
Most sick and injured koalas that wind up in the care of vets are put down, a grim new analysis of data shows.
Tasmanian businesses have formed a new group to campaign for the salvation of an ancient fish, fearing its demise could cost them dearly.
A new report card has given Australia an F, for fail, for its efforts to bring the nation's endangered plants and animals back from the brink.
Another 20 species have been added to Australia's endangered list including imperilled plants and animals.
More than 20 new coal projects in two states would have a devastating impact on the habitat of endangered koalas, climate and conservation groups warn.
A government audit has delivered a scathing assessment of the NSW environment department's efforts to save more than 1000 species from extinction.
Scientists are celebrating the arrival of a bouncing baby girl, as they race to save an ancient species from the jaws of extinction.
Logging continues in a small patch of NSW where a rare frog lives despite the species being listed as endangered under both federal and state laws.
A conservation group is urging the Queensland government to protect land with greater glider habitat after logging near a site where the species has been seen.
Scientists say one of Australia's most valuable biodiversity hot spots is in danger of death by a thousand cuts as pastoralists clear the landscape unchecked.
Agriculture ministers have agreed to hold a national planning drill to make sure Australia is ready for the possible arrival of the deadly H5 bird flu strain.
Two key recommendations of the Henry review have been pushed aside but the NSW government says it's plan to fix the nature crisis will still work.
Australia is allowing a foreign super trawler to harvest a threatened fish species off Tasmania, amid serious concerns about a population crash.
Australia's environment ministers have been accused of being missing in action and doing little to get ready for bird flu impacts on native wildlife.
Australia's environment ministers are accused of being missing in action and doing little to get ready for the impacts of bird flu on native wildlife.
Analysis shows 11 of the 20 active logging operations under way in northern NSW are in areas earmarked for a sprawling koala park, conservation groups say.
There's no end in sight to a large-scale shutdown of timber harvesting in NSW, with all sectors of the timber industry feeling the financial pain.